Publications
If you are here I guess you are interested in some of the research listed below. Please feel free to contact me at agostino.meroni [at] gmail.com to ask for a full text or to let me know any comment or ideas you might have about these topics! I'll be happy to answer and hear about your opinions.
In preparation/submitted
E. Strobach, A. K. Mishra, B. Jangir, B. Ziv, R. Sun, L. Siegelman, A. N. Meroni and P. Klein, The impact of Mediterranean mesoscale eddies on precipitations on land, submitted to Commun. Earth Environ.
A. Polesello, G. A. Charinti, A. N. Meroni, C. J. Mueller and C. Pasquero, Intensification rate of tropical cyclones: surface versus mid and upper tropospheric processes, submitted to J. Adv. Model Earth Syst.
A. K. Mishra, A. N. Meroni and E. Strobach, Effects of the grid spacing and boundary layer scheme on the daily air-sea coupling over the Mediterranean Sea in HighResMIP, in preparation
2024
N. Tartaglione, F. Desbiolles, A. Del Moral-Méndez, A. N. Meroni, A. Napoli, M. Borgnino, A. Parodi and C. Pasquero, Low cloud response to aerosol-radiation-cloud interactions: Idealized WRF numerical experiments for EUREC4A project, Atmos. Sci. Lett., e1208, doi:10.1002/asl.120812
2023
O. Bialik, G. Coletti, L. Mariani, L. Commissario, F. Desbiolles and A. N. Meroni, Availability and type of energy regulate the global distribution of neritic carbonates, Sci. Rep., 13, 19687, doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-47029-4 (full text available)
P. Bazzicalupo, G. Bosio, A. N. Meroni, G. Piazza, A. G. Varzi, L. Fallati, G. Coletti, L. Mariani, M. Borgnino, F. Desbiolles and L. Borromeo, The precarious life of Early Career Geoscientists: data and perspectives from the Italian Academia, Ital. J. Geosci., 142, 3, 443-448, doi: 10.3301/IJG.2023.23
A. N. Meroni, F. Desbiolles and C. Pasquero (2023), Satellite signature of the instantaneous wind response to mesoscale oceanic thermal structures, Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 149, 3373-3382, doi: 10.1002/qj.4561 (full text available)
P. Fernandez, S. Speich, M. Borgnino, A. N. Meroni, F. Desbiolles and C. Pasquero (2023), On the importance of the atmospheric coupling to the small-scale ocean in the modulation of latent heat flux, Front. Mar. Sci., 10, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1136558 (full text available)
F. Desbiolles, A. N. Meroni, L. Renault and C. Pasquero (2023), Environmental control of wind response to sea surface temperature patterns in reanalysis dataset, J. Cli., 36, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0373.1 (full text available)
2022
C. Acquistapace, A. N. Meroni, G. Labbri, D. Lange, F. Spath, S. Abbas and H. Bellenger (2022), Fast atmospheric response to a cold oceanic mesoscale cold patch in the north-western tropical Atlantic, J. Geophys, Res. Atmos., 127, e2022JD036799, doi: 10.1029/2022JD036799 (full text available).
A. N. Meroni, F. Desbiolles and C. Pasquero (2022), Introducing new metrics for the atmospheric pressure adjustment to thermal structures at the ocean surface, J. Geophys, Res. Atmos., 127, e2021JD035968, doi: 10.1029/2021JD035968 (full text available).
G. Piazza, V. A. Bracchi, A. Langone, A. N. Meroni and D. Basso (2022), Growth rate rather than temperature affects the B/Ca ratio in the calcareous red alga Lithothamnion Corallioides, Biogeosciences, 19, 1047-1065, doi: 10.5194/bg-19-1047-2022 (full text available).
V. A. Bracchi, S. Caronni, A. N. Meroni, E. G. Burguett, F. Atzori, N. Cadoni, F. Marchese and D. Basso (2022), Morphostructural characterization of the heterogeneous rhodolith bed at the Marine Protected Area "Capo Carbonara" (Italy) and hydrodynamics, Diversity, 14, 51, doi: 10.3390/d14010051 (full text available).
2021
B. Stevens, S. Bony, D. Farrell et al. [A. N. Meroni] (2021), EUREC4A, Earth Syst. Sci. Data., 13, 4067-4119, doi: 10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021 (full text available).
F. Desbiolles, M. Alberti, M. E. Hamouda, A. N. Meroni and C. Pasquero (2021), Links between sea surface temperature structures, clouds and rainfall: Study case of the Mediterranean Sea, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48(10), e2020GL091839, doi: 10.1029/2020GL091839 (full text available).
A. N. Meroni, K. Amua, R. Muita, M.-J. Bopape, T. R. Maisha, M. Lagasio, A. Parodi and G. Venuti (2021), Sensitivity of some African heavy rainfall events to microphysics and planetary boundary layer schemes: impacts on localised storms, Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 147, 2448-2468, doi: 10.1002/qj.4033 (full text available).
L. Apicella, S. Puca, M. Lagasio, A. N. Meroni, M. Milelli, N. Vela, V. Garbero, L. Ferraris and A. Parodi (2021), The predictive capacity of the high resolution Weather Research and Forecasting model: A year-long verification over Italy, Bull. Atmos. Sci. Technol., 2(3), doi: 10.1007/s42865-021-00032-x (full text available).
C. Pasquero, F. Desbiolles and A. N. Meroni (2021), Air-sea interactions in the cold wakes of tropical cyclones, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2020GL091185, doi: 10.1029/2020GL091185 (full text available).
2020
A. Parodi, M. Lagasio, A. N. Meroni, F. Pignone, F. Silvestro and L. Ferraris (2020), A hindcast study of the Piedmont 1994 flood: the CIMA Research Foundation hydro-meteorological forecasting chain, Bull. Atmos. Sci. Technol., 1, 297-318, doi: 10.1007/s42865-020-00023-4 (full text available).
M. Lagasio, A. N. Meroni, G. Boni, L. Pulvirenti, A. Monti Guarnieri, R. Haagmans, S. Hobbs and A. Parodi (2020), Meteorological OSSEs for new Zenith Total Delay observations: impact assessment for the Hydroterra geosynchronous satellite on the October 2019 Genoa event, Remote Sens, 12(22), 3787, doi: 10.3390/rs12223787 (full text available).
A. N. Meroni, M. Montrasio, G. Venuti, S. Barindelli, A. Mascitelli, M. Manzoni, A. Monti Guarnieri, A. Gatti, M. Lagasio, A. Parodi, E. Realini and G. Tagliaferro (2020), On the definition of the strategy to obtain absolute InSAR Zenith Total Delay maps for meteorological applications, Front. Earth Sci., 8, 359, doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.00359 (full text available).
A. N. Meroni, M. Giurato, F. Ragone and C. Pasquero (2020), Observational evidence of the preferential occurrence of wind convergence over sea surface temperature fronts in the Mediterranean, Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 146, 1443-1458, doi:10.1002/qj.3745. <accepted version full text>.
2019
M. Lagasio, A. Parodi, L. Pulvirenti, A. N. Meroni, G. Boni, N. Pierdicca, F. S. Marzano, L. Luini, G. Venuti, E. Realini, A. Gatti, G. Tagliaferro, S. Barindelli, A. Monti Guarnieri, K. Goga, O. Terzo, A. Rucci, E. Passera, D. Kranzlmueller and B. Rommen (2019), A synergistic use of a high-resolution numerical weather prediction model and high-resolution Earth Observation products to improve precipitation forecast, Remote Sens., 11(20), 2387, doi:10.3390/rs11202387 (full text available).
F. Foglini, V. Grande, F. Marchese, V. A. Bracchi, M. Prampolini, L. Angeletti, G. Castellan, G. Chimienti, I. M. Hansen, M. Gudmundsen, A. N. Meroni, A. Mercorella, A. Vertino, F. Badalementi, C. Corselli, I. Erdal, E. Martorelli, A. Savini, M. Taviani (2019), Application of hyperspectral imaging to underwater habitat mapping, Southern Adriatic Sea, Sensors, 19, 2261, doi:10.3390/s19102261 (full text available).
A. N. Meroni, C. McConnochie, C. Cenedese, B. Sutherland and K. Snow (2019), Nonlinear influence of the Earth’s rotation on iceberg melting, J. Fluid Mech., 858, 832-851, doi:10.1017/jfm.2018.798, <full text>.
2018
A. N. Meroni, L. Renault, A. Parodi and C. Pasquero (2018), Role of the oceanic vertical thermal structure in the modulation of heavy precipitations over the Ligurian Sea, Pure Appl. Geophys., 175(11), 4111-4130, doi:10.1007/s00024-018-2002-y, <full text>.
A. N. Meroni, A. Parodi and C. Pasquero (2018), Role of SST patterns on surface wind modulation of a heavy midlatitude precipitation event, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 123, 9081-9096, doi:10.1029/2018JD028276.
2017
A. N. Meroni, M. D. Miller, E. Tziperman and C. Pasquero (2017), Nonlinear energy transfer among ocean internal waves in the wake of a moving cyclone, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 47(8), 1961-1980, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-16-0232.1, <full text> © Copyright 2017 AMS.